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03:05PM Sunday Apr 13 2008 by KathrynV
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The European Satellite Navigation Competition recently saw a winner in a product called the eye-phone which uses a combination of satellite navigation technology and Internet information to provide users with an education in the items that surround them. For example, let’s say that you were at The Eiffel Tower and wanted to know more about it. Instead of reading the signs available, you could take a photo of the tower with your eye-phone. Recognizing your location via satellite navigation and using object recognition technology, the eye-phone would figure out that it was the Eiffel Tower which interested you and would provide information to you straight through your phone. After success at the competition, the makers of the eye-phone are now moving forward with a prototype which they expect to have available this summer. They will then begin working with mobile phone operators in the hopes of having the eye-phone on the market in under two years.

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dadkins
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Eye-phone?

Bet Apple is going to get their panties in a wad over that name!
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Re: Eye-phone?

So is Cisco who actually owns the trademark.

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I'm holding out for the Wee-Fone. Part Wii-mote, part Wi-Fi, part I-phone, all lawsuit.

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So you're at the museum and want some more info about an artist, so you take a picture of one of the masterpieces on the wall.

2 mins later the copyright police surge into the room and you've got a black bag over your head on your way to the airport for a flight to Gitmo as a copyright terrorist....
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Um...the point is?

If you have a smart phone, why wouldn't you just Google "The Eiffel Tower" on your mobile browser? Why go through all the trouble of taking a picture of something, uploading it to somewhere, and hoping it comes back with relevant information?

I'm thinking this is a bust...

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Re: Um...the point is?

People know the Eiffel Tower but it would be nice to point it at a hotel and see if they have vacancies or at a restaurant during the day to make reservations for that evening.

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Re: Um...the point is?

That would be nice, but I'm thinking not likely!

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April 13th, @03:23PM

if there was an app on your phone you clicked one button, the app brings up the camera dialogs you click capture (or whatever your phone says to take a picture), and it sends it directly up and you get the relevant info in two clicks i thin kits worth it. Because then you could do it worth product s and many other things. Scarily in the future you may take a picture of someone and get their name in response.
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Re: Um...the point is?

I'm in with 2 clicks. More than that just seems like too much trouble, I agree. It would be great to walk into a Best Buy, and in two clicks, have the best price on the item in front of you.

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said by chakey See Profile :

I'm thinking this is a bust...
I can see it now. Take a picture of the St Louis Arch and the eye-phone shoots you back a McDonalds menu.

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Re: Um...the point is?

said by FriesWithThat :

said by chakey See Profile :

I'm thinking this is a bust...
I can see it now. Take a picture of the St Louis Arch and the eye-phone shoots you back a McDonalds menu.
LMAO. And just think if you accidently have the service on taking pics of yer mother's, or grandmother's house, and up pops a list of all the sex offenders who ever lived within the block or worse, in their house...

Me thinks the idea is kewl, but actual mileage will fall far less than advertised...
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...Takes way to long to type in accurately when yer peeing yer pants photographing the Eiffel Tower! lol.

Heck, although this is a LAME comparison, (and I mean L A M E!!), Virgin Moble has a dial-up system where you let yer phone hear a song you want the info for, and within a minute or so, it SMS's you back with the info based on song recogniton... Of course, it costs like a buck to do it, and I can "google" it mucho faster, but i guess when at a party, you might be more popular....

Then again, that's the exact audience Virgin is charging for....

For me, It's just a free PAYG, $0.10/min anywhere fone... And yeah, VM nickle and dimes you to death if you let them... And their data service kinda blows, but in the end I find it cheaper to pay $5 a month for what, 50MB of data, whichever comes first... Works fine for serious stuff like bad weather, radar, and other common mundane services other than d/l all the new ringtones at $2.00 each.... I'll hack my own when I need more... heh.
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April 13th, @03:22PM

I saw Gates demoing this at CES

I think it was a Vegas backdrop on the screen on stage and the their large handheld device was able to identify popular landmarks and give information about it...very cool. It also recognized faces so if you always forget names, you can get all the info you need on the QT.

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Re: I saw Gates demoing this at CES

said by Skeedatl See Profile :

I think it was a Vegas backdrop on the screen on stage and the their large handheld device was able to identify popular landmarks and give information about it...very cool. It also recognized faces so if you always forget names, you can get all the info you need on the QT.
Great for those with onset Alzheimers - a mobile face recognition tool.
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floepie

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Geopedia

There's a much simpler approach which I find quite useful at the moment for the iphone called Geopedia. Because the iphone can pinpoint your relative whereabouts, the app simply does a lookup for wikipedia entries which have been "geostamped" for a given location, giving you all wikipedia results in an iphone-friendly fashion within a certain radius from where you are standing.
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How much data does this use?

How much data does this use?

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Re: How much data does this use?

And related to that question: what are the projected market adoption rates for this? In the n.american market, our voice plans are expensive enough, we dont want to pay more than $20 for home broadband...are they going to count on asia and european subs to make this profitable?
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Wow....

This is going to take a very long time to my guess to even get started, as taking a picture of something and getting the proper result back is going to be a trick thing to even code.

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I'd Rather Just....

...wander around the Eiffel Tower and read the signs, and sort of - oh, I don't know - get the whole experience of the place perhaps, rather than just reading data on a screen, which I can do with Wikipedia back at home.

Just another doodad that makes us look down, when we should be looking up.
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